See Previous | See Next Well, we have officially reached the time of year when there are way too many pretty things to possibly summarize them with two photos. So, rather than pick the two best photos, however that should be counted, I have simply picked my two favorite – beautiful things growing beautifully. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows off the pretty dance of the white irises that has just come and gone, with the tall irises…
See Previous | See Next Plenty of rain this week, in fits and starts, and my garden has been blooming, not in fits-and-starts but in a very pretty procession that means this week I get to add chokecherry blossoms and irises to my pretty pictures. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is definitely a sea of white with some purple and blue mixed in. (And yes, my tulips are blooming right now, too – other flowers are just blooming…
See Previous | See Next My garden is decked in blooms from head to toe (or lilacs to creeping veronica, according to my pictures here)! Of course, my phlox still seems to be of two minds about bloom time, and my chokecherry shrubs seem to be planning a dramatic entrance sometime soon – more blooms to come! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years looks like all sorts of beautiful purple and white flowers have conspired to show off last…
See Previous | See Next Yay for rain! And rain. And some more rain. The garden is blooming and getting a good drink (or dunking) this week. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years my mosaic looks like there’s snow everywhere, but it’s actually only in two panels. The rest is the procession of white blossoms, interrupted this week – every year apparently – with some sort of pretty purple flower. (Also, my bright tulips have started blooming; I can…
See Previous | See Next Well, this week it snowed again. It was a pretty slushy sort of snow, that started dripping down and melting almost right away, but it was multiple inches, so the melting and dripping took a bit. In the meantime, new things were still blooming, including the dastardly vinca (annoyingly pretty when it blooms), and the redbud, which does not like the cold, but it forging ahead none-the-less. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows…
See Previous | See Next (sorry for the late posting – I was having login issues…) So what’s your preference? Apple blossoms or plum blossoms? Frothy and lush, or simple and elegant? Because this seems to be the week for both! Of my three sets of plum bushes, these are my earliest blooming (and much beloved by the bees). I would say that it’s a tad early for the apple blossoms, but I’ve been seeing them blooming all over town,…
See Previous | See Next Check it out! I have dwarf irises and daffodils blooming! …on the order of 2 of each, but still! More flowers! More flowers are coming! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years really makes it look like this is the season of flowers. (My actual garden may be a bit sparser yet than this would seem to advertise…) Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows the dreaded time of the camera malfunction when I…
See Previous | See Next The very red tulips are here, poking up out of the leaf mulch and opening wide in the sun. I look forward to them, and they are always startling. Also, some of my other scattered hellebores are starting to bloom as well. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows just how very consistent my very-early red tulips like to be, marching in a straight, red line down the years. The crocuses dance around near…
See Previous | See Next Well, this week the snow melted, the crocuses and hellebores emerged from beneath it to bloom gleefully, and then it snowed again. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years confirms that it is definitely pretty crocuses season! (And crazy red, front-garden tulips season soon to come!) Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows off a bit of haunting, snowy March symmetry, but also promises that the snow will be giving way to lots of…
See Previous | See Next And now is the season for knocking snow off of tree branches with a stick lest they get so bowed down they break – or at least it was, for a day or two there. Snow now starting to melt, but there’s a lot of it. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows almost no concurrence with snow, but rather with hens-and-chicks, and hellebores, and crocuses. Before it snowed, I did spot one crocus…